Criminologists have developed both crime-centered and person-centered typologies. The former sort out criminal activities into homogeneous groupings, such as residential burglary, car clouting, white-collar crime, and forcible rape. Criminologists base such types on offender-victim relations, techniques employed in the crime, and spatial or temporal features of the lawbreaking activity.
â¢ ELYSIAN (adjective). The adjective ELYSIAN has 2 senses: 1. relating to the Elysian Fields. 2. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods. Familiarity information: ELYSIAN used as an adjective is rare. ELYSIAN (adjective). The adjective ELYSIAN has 2 senses: 1. relating to the Elysian Fields. 2. being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods. Familiarity information: ELYSIAN used as an adjective is rare.
A deictic expression (or deixis) is a word or phrase (such as this, that, these, those, now, then) that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking. Deixis is expressed in English by way of personal pronouns, demonstratives, and tense. See Observations and Examples below.